In my first order of six rifles the license more than paid for the fee and bookkeeping materials.

My "state" has 8.25% sales tax, a $14 Dealer's Record of Sale fee, and a 10-day wait for all firearms. The C&R FFL exempts me from all of that AND dealer markups. All I have to pay in exchange for the privilege is S&H and the minor hassle of keeping a bound book.

If you like C&R firearms and are even slightly serious about accumulating them, it's worth it.

A Luger is a very complex and precise pistol it could be built but would be very expensive. Think about what you pay for a new Sig which is a much less complex design and then double that maybe more.

Yeah, but most of the work could automated these days. With very tight tolerances.

Take apart a 1911 and a Luger then examine what you have on the table AND then think about what you pay for a quality 1911 TODAY. The Luger is going to be much more costly to produce than the 1911.

There still would be a market for it. And with modern manufacuring, it shouldn't be more than $1300 for one. The last decent luger I found was $1100 and 50 years old.

A decent modern Luger, produced to exact specs would be running at least 2500+There is no such thing as a decent repro gun, they will always fall short of the original.Repro M1 carbines, Repro 1911s, Repro M1 garands - none of them stack up.The QC for the military in those days, combined with mfg methods, is such that it would be insanely pricey today.Hell - those cheap Mauser surplus rifles are far better than any Remington/Winchester/etc that you will find on the market today.